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Assessment of Rehabilitation Needs ILaajuus (3 cr)

Code: SKOS1802

Credits

3 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Responsible person

  • Teppo Karapalo

Objective

The student understands the concepts of working capacity, functional capacity, rehabilitation needs and service needs. The student is familiar with the field in which rehabilitation and service needs are assessed. The student understands the development and changes of a person's capacity to work and function during different stages of life, and the individual, communal and social factors that influence them. The student acknowledges the importance of a person's remaining capacity to work and function for the rehabilitation. The student acknowledges the importance of assessing the rehabilitation and service needs during the early stages of the rehabilitation process.

Content

The concepts of working capacity, functional capacity, rehabilitation needs and service needs. The multi-professional operating environments for assessing rehabilitation and service needs. The development of the ability to work and function and changes in various stages of life as well as influencing factors. The importance of assessing rehabilitation and service needs in the early stages of the rehabilitation process.

Qualifications

Student identifies social and health care services, masters the basics of customer-oriented work in the social and health care sector, and knows the basics of promoting and guiding health and well-being.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Passed: The student understands the concepts of working capacity, functional capacity, rehabilitation needs and service needs. The student is familiar with the field in which multiprofessional rehabilitation and service needs are assessed. The student understands the development and changes of a person's working capacity and functional capacity to work and function during different stages of life, and the individual, communal and social factors that influence them. The student acknowledges the importance of a person's remaining capacity to work and function for the rehabilitation. The student acknowledges the importance of assessing the rehabilitation and service needs during the early stages of the rehabilitation process.